The Cecil Whig., 1887-10-29
PARTIZAN VS.. REFORMEf.

AT the Democratic meeting IN this
town on Saturday night last, MIR. Writ
appealed to partizan Democrats by
saying, that every Democrat who cut
his Commissioners ticket, and voted
for Republican candidate helped to
put the Republican party in power in
the county. Now Mr.. Whyte who
preceded Mr.. Writ, had very emphati-
cally pointed out, that the defeat of the
Democratic party in Maryland, might
result in the defeat of Mr.. Cleveland
next year, and the warning that every
partizan Democrat took home with him
on Saturday night was, that a vote
against Democratic Commissioner in
Cecil county, might indirectly help to
defeat the Democratic candidate for
the Presidency in 1888. 1t was rattle,
ali intangible argument, but still the
purpose of it was plain. 1t was in
tended to impress the Democratic voter
with the terribly disastrous results which
might follow his falterlng in his party
allegiance. Now without intending to
be personal, we think that the two acts,
that of voting for the most competent
men for County Commissioners in
Cecil county this fall, and that of voting
on the Presidential question next fall,
are about as wide apart as Mr.. Wirt's
dual characters of Vice President of the
Maryland Civil Service Reform Asso-
citation, and his present leadership OF
Mr.. Gorman's partizan followers in
Cecil county.
In which of these roles are the repu-
table voters of the county to recognize
him?
Here is the great body of the tax
payers of Cecil county, struggling un-
der a grevious burden of taxation.
Their lands are deprecated in value,
their farm products bring IN the mar
kets scarcely the cost of their produc-
ton, while the prospect of increased
taxation in the future to meet county
debt of over seventy-fve thousand dol
lars, stares them in the face. They
know that partial relief can only be
looked for in a closer and more eco
nomical administration of county al
fairs, and by better BUSINESS manage
ment of the office of Commissioner.
Many of them are Democrats, some Of
whom possibly may have been inhu-
enced by Mr.. Wirt's utteranCes as a
Civil Service Retormer, and who have
come to the sensible conclusion, that
the best thing to do in this emergency
in county affairs, is to sink their parti-
zan preferences, and vote for the men
best qualified for so important a busi-
ness office, and one which so intimately
concerns their property interests. Now,
with the unmistakable evidences of this
conviction on every hand, Mr.. Writ
makes a purely partizan appeal to their
partizan prejudices, by holding up be-
fore men who believe it would be to
their interest and benefit to cast a non
partizan vote for County Commissioner,
the awful consequences of their act.
He doesn't make his appeal upon the
ground Of superiority of qualification in
the candidates his party has nominated,
and which nominations to some extent
he possibly controlled, but solely on
the ground that they should be sup
ported by Democrats, because their
names are on the Democratic ticket.
In other words our gu0naam local
Vice President Of the Civil Service Re-
form Association of Maryland, under
the pressure of threatened disaster, sud-
denly blooms out into full blown par
tizan Democrat, whose influence and
support Mr.. Germans State Ticket
shares alike with it's county Democratic
associates. OF course Mr.. Writ has a
perfect right to be the lntensest parti-
zan of Mr. German in the county if he
pleases, and we have the same right to
criticise his public utterances to the
people, but we claim he must forever
hereafter sink his character of "Re-
former" to consistently make such
partizan appeals, in the possible bene-
fits of which, Mr.. German and his cor
rupt satellites are to share.